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Dunno, making a bunch of airlines go bankrupt and teaching people to do meetings online might have lasting effects on how much people fly in the future too. One

• jfk13 7y ago
  Yes - so maybe a noticeable part of the current 8% dip will "stick". But if it does, do you suppose the next pandemic will cause an equivalent additional dip? No, because whatever lasting changes have already been made are changes that aren't available to make when the next virus sweeps through. To make real progress, we need to do far more than stay home, because staying home wins us 8% but we need 75%.
• beervirus 7y ago
  An airline going bankrupt doesn’t mean that its planes will never fly again. It just means they’ll be flown by by the airline’s creditors once people start flying again.
  • m12k 7y ago
    Fewer airlines means lower supply, making air travel more expensive, which will make fewer people choose to buy it.
    • derg 7y ago
      Which hopefully would be paired with more inter-urban high-speed rail regionally* where it would make sense in terms of mirroring or even beating your standard drive/flight time. Hell, even if a more widespread high-speed rail system were still slower than air travel I would still take it because air travel is absolutely miserable and I detest it with every fiber of my being. *I specify regionally because I know someone is going to "WELL AKSHUALLY " me on the fact that the US is a large spread out country and intercontinental high speed rail wouldn't work (though I would love to take a train from NYC to LA because why not?).